Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-01-19
SOIITH CAROLINA NEWS.

/Z,Al work on the extension Of the Co.
lumbia canal has been stopped.
- The new Town Council of Trenton have
put liquor license at 81 500 and pool table
license at $500.
-Abbevile, within the past year, has
voted per cent. of her taxable property to
railroad enterprises
- There will be about 300 delinquent tax
payers in Williamsburg county this year.
Last year there were over | 900.
The town council of Walhalla has fixed
the liquor license at 5000. Three licenses
have been granted.
jackson Howard, who shot a revenue
officer, j. B. Elkins, near Glass Mountain,
Greenville county, has been arrested and
bound over for trial.
Lieut.. Col. A. H. White, of the Palmet-
to Regiment, formerly captain of the Ca
tawba Rifles, has rendered his resignation,
to take effect as soon as his successor shall
be elected and qualified.
The postmaster at Columbia has been
notified by the civil service commission,
that an examination will be held in that
city on the 9th instant, for the benefit of
those desiring departmental work in WASH
ington.
- Marshall Amaker, white man, has
been convicted in the Orangeburg Court of
the murder Of Robt. Baltzigger, one of his
colored tenants, in March last. The jury
was composed entirely of white men. They
recommended the murderer to mercy.
The taxpayers of Clinton, by unani-
nous vote, have agreed TO carry bonded
debt of ten thousand dollars in aid of the
Georgia, Carolina and Northern Railroad,
which is the new name for the Chester,
Greenwood and Abbeville Railroad.
7Mr. Charles Brunson, of Hampton coun-
ty, while butchering hog last week, had
his thumb pierced by splinter, and the
blood of the hog entering the thumb. blood
poisoning followed, from the effects of
which he died in a few days.
The Governor has appointed Eugene P.
Jervey, of Charleston, as Railroad Commits
sioner. This is reappointment, Mr.. Jer-
vey having filled out the unexpired term of
General L. J. Walker, after that gentle
mans resignation to take the position of
Deputy Collector of Customs at Charleston.
X The Columbia Record says the work on
the State House is rapidly nearing compile
ton. All of the stoneswork under the pres
ent contract has been set, and the brick
work will be finished by the latter part of
next month. The metal roof over the east
wing will be commenced next week. The
roof over the two porches will be Temporal
ry, until the Legislature provides for its
completion.
Mr.. f. r. Stokes, the we'll known book
binder, and one of the oldest residents of
Columbia, was found dead in bed by his
wife on Sunday morning oflast week, about
half-past o'clock. He was "a years of age,
and leaves wife and three daughters. Mr..
Stokes was native of Philadelphia, and
came to Columbia, in the year 1857, as
bookbinder. He conducted successful
business there until feeble health impaired
his physical abilities. He died of general
debility. He losta son but a few weeks ago.
A meeting of the incorporators of the
Chester and Camden Short Line Railroad
was held at Longtown, Fairfield county, on
Tuesday of last week. A permanentorgan-
ization was effected by the election of julius
Mills, of Chester, President, and the election
of the following Directors: J. X. Henry and
G. G. Culp, of Chester, and Charles A. Doug
lass and Louis Wilds, of Fairfield. The
Directors from Kershaw county will be
elected at subsequent meeting. J. E. Nc
Donald was elected attorney of the compa-
ny. Committees were appointed to solicit
subscriptions from the different townships
along the proposed line.